Do you have ADD Mriana? I’ve heard that caffeine sometimes has this kind of reverse effect on people with ADD.

Darryl

Not to be a critic or anything, but a message that prompts questions about its meaning needs to be refined. This one is not general enough. There’s my two cents.

Richard Wade

Not to be a critic or anything, but a message that prompts questions about its meaning needs to be refined. This one is not general enough. There’s my two cents.

I don’t understand, Darryl. What do you mean? Are you saying you are a critic or are you saying you are not a critic? What is wrong with a message that prompts questions about its meaning? Could it be a conversation starter? What do you mean it’s not general enough? Wouldn’t being more general make it less specific and even harder to understand its meaning? What would the message be like if it was more refined? Could you give an example? Where’s your two cents? What do you mean by that?

AxeGrrl

The slogan strikes me more as something Fred Phelps might say!

As we atheists/heretics/infidels/heathenists keep him ‘up at night’ out of frustration, and we also give him his chief ‘purpose’ every day!

Susan B.

Hmmm…I meant the meaning to be a bit ambiguous, but I guess it was too much so! Atheism keeps me up at night for a number of reasons–one because I’m always on forums and blogs like this instead of sleeping! Also, the problems that atheists face in many parts of the world do worry me enough that I spend a lot of time thinking about them, although I’m not sure if I’ve ever literally lost sleep over them. Lastly, I often stay up late or lie awake in bed thinking about questions of logic, philosophy, ethics, etc. simply because I find them interesting (just as I lie awake thinking about math problems and so on). So for the most part, atheism keeps me awake at night in a positive way.

I find it amusing (though not surprising) that all the questions I’ve gotten from atheists on this have been “Why does atheism keep you up at night?” while all the questions from theists have been “How does atheism help you get up in the morning?” The atheists have no trouble with the second part, and the theists have no trouble with the first part (although they’re probably guessing the wrong reasons why).